Malta in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.9297, -88.8609
- Elevation
- 277 m above sea level
- Population
- 1 152
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1055 km away
- Same name
- 37 more places in the world share this name
Check the current local time in Malta, Illinois, United States, which sits in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Malta, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Malta
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Malta, Illinois.
Sunrise 6:44 AM Solar noon 11:41 AM Sunset 4:38 PM Daylight 9 h 54 min Night 14 h 06 min Civil twilight 6:14 AM – 5:08 PM
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Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Malta adheres to America/Chicago, a UTC−6 offset. Daylight saving time observed: No.
The sun breaks the horizon at Malta at 6:44 AM and leaves it at 4:38 PM. Daylight comes to 9 h 54 min.
Nearby Dekalb County and Creston need no separate clock from Malta.
Malta accounts for 4 postal codes.